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Author:

Ducharme, Diann.

Title:

The Outer Banks house : a novel / Diann Ducharme.

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Broadway Paperbacks,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

297 p. : map ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Plantation owners--Fiction.
Fishers--Outer Banks--Outer Banks--Fiction.
Social classes--Outer Banks--Outer Banks--Fiction.
Outer Banks (N.C.)--Race relations--Fiction.
Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.)--North Carolina--Fiction.
Plantation owners--Fiction.
Fishers--Fiction.
Social classes--Outer Banks (N.C.)--Fiction.
Outer Banks (N.C.)--Race relations--Fiction.
Ku Klux Klan--Fiction.
Love stories.
Historical fiction.
Love stories.
Historical fiction.

Summary:

Seventeen-year-old Abigail, spending the summer with her family in Nags Head, North Carolina, agrees to teach her father's fishing guide, Benjamin Whimble, how to read and write, and as they begin to spend more time together, the two fall in love, only to find their relationship threatened by Benjamin's entanglement in Abbey's dad's Ku Klux Klan dealings.

Indexed by:

Library Journal Starred, April 2010
Publisher's Weekly, April 2010
Library Journal Starred
Publisher's Weekly

ISBN:

0307462242
9780307462244 (pbk.)

Locations:

OJPC027 -- Corning Public Library (Corning)